- From: Schleiff, Marty <marty.schleiff@boeing.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:30:16 -0800
- To: "Williams, Stuart \(HP Labs, Bristol\)" <skw@hp.com>, "Renato Iannella" <renato@nicta.com.au>, <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "John Cowan" <cowan@ccil.org>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
> > > What on earth elevated these character sequences to the status of > > > "metadata" about anything? > > > > The draft TAG finding on "The Use of Metadata in URIs". > > Hmmmm.... I don't think so. I don't think the finding tells > folks that what they are looking at *is* metadata, or what it > signifies. >From the first paragraph of the introduction: "Such metadata might include the title of a document, the creation date of the resource, the MIME media type that is likely to be returned by an HTTP GET, a digital signature usable to verify the integrity or authorship of the resource content, or hints about URI assignment policies that would allow one to guess the URIs for related resources." Maybe the finding doesn't say what they are looking at *is* metadata, but it does say it *might* be metadata. And if it's not metadata, then the document spends lots of time exploring things that aren't metadata. Marty.Schleiff@boeing.com; CISSP Associate Technical Fellow Cyber Identity Specialist Computing Security Infrastructure (206) 679-5933
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